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Date:         Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:27:45 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Air Conditioner
Comments: To: dnmwilhite@EARTHLINK.NET
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Back in the early sixties Chrysler came out with their electronic ignition, a turbine car that ran on Wesson oil or anything clean enough not to clog the injectors. Ford came out with Overhead can 427 engines and GM was experimenting with an Automotive AC unit that cooked the Freon in/on/around/near the Exhaust manifold and powered the required heat to force the Freon gas through the system. Problem was the Freon got to over 600 degrees in about fifteen minutes and the pressures became extraordinary. The extreme pressure literally cut the orifices out of the regulators and exploded the condenser and evaporators. They continued working on the system until 1965 to be installed on the newly released Toronado. The first Toronado that came through the dealership I was working with had appendages cast into the exhaust manifolds to mount this system but the innovative system had been abandoned by release time. So there have been a lot of people working on a zero horsepower AC unit for many years.

Stan Wilder

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:18:40 +0800 David Wilhite <dnmwilhite@EARTHLINK.NET> writes: > I use the hang in window air conditioner on my van when camping > during the summer myself, but have always been thinking of other > solutions. > > I was wondering if anybody has considered the following method. > Install an AC motor in the engine bay with a belt going to the > compressor. Put a double clutch on the vehicle air conditioner > compressor to handle the belt from the AC motor and the engine. Use > a transformer/invertor to change the 120 VAC to 12 VDC to run the > interior air conditioner duct fan and the fan up front behind the > radiator. This would be ideal, because there would be no > modifications to the vanagon body itself and no appreciable space > would be used. > > I haven't researched how much horsepower the air conditioner > compressor uses or if a double clutch unit is available. My > thinking is that these would be the two hang ups for following > through on this idea. > > Thoughts? > -- > > > 86' Syncro GL (for sale) > 84' Subaruvanagon Westy > 01' KLR650 >

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